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Mar 26, 2013 · Just 40 miles west of Tallahassee, the institution began as a federal arsenal during the Seminole Wars, was then a state prison, then an insane asylum. There’s the good, the bad, and ugly in its ...
McIntosh was the son of a Scottish captain in the British army and a Creek woman belonging to the influential Wind Clan. McIntosh ultimately became a chief with a lower Creek faction and later operated a backwoods plantation, tavern, and ferry on the Chattahoochee River.
For years, the Florida State Hospital at Chattahoochee had quite a reputation-most of it bad; but, the institution was not alone. For decades throughout the country, state facilities earned...
Feb 9, 2024 · The surviving earthen mounds at Chattahoochee Landing Park comprise remnants of a once sprawling 7-mound epicenter and trade hub for the Fort Walton people about 1000 years ago. Spanish explorers first recorded the area in 1674 as part of the Old Spanish Trail and said the complex was abandoned.
Because speakers of the Muskogean dialects dominated the confederacy, the Chattahoochee people were known collectively as the Muskogee. White men later referred to them as Creeks, probably because of their tendency to locate their towns on the banks of rivers and their larger tributaries.
Jun 7, 2011 · Originally called the Florida Asylum for the Indigent Insane, but more commonly called “Chattahoochee” by long-time Floridians, I came to know of the hospital’s existence back in the 1960s when I first moved to Florida.
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Nov 2, 2022 · In this first part of the series, we will introduce you to the earliest inhabitants of the Chattahoochee River Valley - Paleo and Archaic Indians - as well as share two myths that were handed down as a part of their culture.
